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poor
adjective (BAD) /pɔːr/
/pʊr/ Definition
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B2 not good, being of a very low quality, quantity, or standard: a poor harvest Last year's exam results were fairly poor. I was always very poor at maths at school. Dad had been in poor health for several years. At last month's meeting, attendance was poor.Not of good qualityRubbish and wasteInformal words for bad
(Definition of poor adjective (BAD) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- atrocious adjective (VERY BAD)
- awful adjective (BAD)
- badly adverb (IN A BAD WAY)
- be an apology for sth idiom
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
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